The HTC S740 gets handled

HTC is keeping the S740 under wraps at IFA, but the crafty folks at newmobile managed to score some time with the new QWERTY slider, and it looks pretty decent. Thinner than the Touch Pro, the keyboard is basically the same, with the same sort of stealth-look backplate as the Diamond. No motion sensor, so the display only rotates when the slide is open, but that's really all we know -- the unit wasn't running a production-ready version of Windows Mobile, so impressions are a little up in the air. Hit the read link for more shots.

[Via Coolsmartphone]

[TheGeektoriousBIG @ Aug 29th 2008 1:28PM]

My that's a long phone. It looks like the faceplate to a car stereo.

[Dead_Rebel @ Aug 29th 2008 1:57PM]

That's what she said.

[Frankfurter @ Aug 29th 2008 2:05PM]

I hate when the ladies tell me that "It looks like the faceplate to a car stereo". Darn it.

[chilalx68 @ Aug 29th 2008 2:12PM]

my my my I was waiting for someone to complain about this phone in someway omg either its to big to long or not big enough wy is everyone always b1tc]-[ing about something about the form factor wtf I mean none of us have even held the phone yet never the less gotten a really good look besides the screens on htc's website

[phanbouy @ Aug 29th 2008 2:26PM]

i was waiting for someone to type a run on sentence that confuses subject and topic while also assiduously avoiding any sort of guiding punctuation that might be able to better guide the reader to aid in the understanding of the comment that's being displayed on their computer screen at their terminal which may or may not be LCD but in either case probably at least has an energy star rating oh and also bitch is a bad word so i ironically use punctuation to mimic the letters in the word bitch because well you know the bad word police will be placated this way

[konshuss @ Aug 29th 2008 2:58PM]

i was expecting phanbuoy to troll, but of course pointing that out makes me a hypocrite unless you know... i mention THE ARTICLE SUBJECT.

nice phone.

[OneLove @ Aug 29th 2008 4:39PM]

I want my HTC touch pro now. Sprint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SimbaDogg @ Aug 29th 2008 6:28PM]

phanbouy...
love the murray icon, i want more episodes of flight ASAP. if you like flight, please watch eagle vs shark

[Edgar N, @ Aug 29th 2008 1:31PM]

why are Z and Y switched around?

[from switzerland @ Aug 29th 2008 2:36PM]

Because it's a German keyboard

[madmax @ Aug 29th 2008 1:32PM]

QWERTZ? Why is the Z and the Y switched?

[Sam Zebian @ Aug 29th 2008 2:51PM]

Yeah but it shouldn't be too much of a problem, we don't use the letter Z or Y too often. See, here's a perfectly good example of how something would be typed on this huge phone with it's keyboard-

Hello, mz name is Sam Yebian.

Oh, NM, lol jk I just wanted to see how my name would look with a Y instead of a Z.

[Jim @ Aug 29th 2008 3:13PM]

@Sam Zebian: "...we don't use the letter Z or Y too often."

Not counting your name change joke or direct reference; you used the letter Y 5 times in three sentences (not counting the name joke or direct reference, as said).

Yeah
perfectly
typed
keyboard
my

I would say that, yes, we do use the letter Y more often than you realize! (3 times in this sentence alone, not counting direct reference, as said).

[ValleNorte @ Aug 29th 2008 5:16PM]

Jim, I think he means in GERMAN the Y rarely used, hence the change...it is after all a GERMAN keyboard layout!

[Jeremy K. @ Aug 29th 2008 1:36PM]

I love the last sentence of the article: "Especially the last one shows how thin the device is!"

[L @ Aug 29th 2008 1:36PM]

Not everybody's main language is English, you know?

Y is hardly ever needed in German, that's why Z & Y are switched on German keyboards...

[Freakin Ijit @ Aug 29th 2008 1:37PM]

I think there's more to this than what we see.

[Jason @ Aug 29th 2008 5:46PM]

You think it has insides?

[Ran @ Aug 29th 2008 1:37PM]

Can you say too looooooong.....

[Mohsin @ Aug 29th 2008 3:46PM]

Thats what she said

[From My Cube @ Aug 29th 2008 1:42PM]

thats a badass looking phone

[TareX @ Aug 29th 2008 3:42PM]

It actually looks like some sort of Chinese joke. I can't see how this got it into actual production.

[Jonathan Ziemer @ Aug 29th 2008 1:45PM]

does it include a capacitive screen? i keep looking for specs about that and I must be loosing it. One source said it didn't but it's still unclear to me.

[Phoenix @ Aug 29th 2008 3:46PM]

Not Touch screen

[ingus @ Aug 29th 2008 1:52PM]

that is one THICK phone...

reminds me of the bygone days when the batteries were twice as thick as the phones.

[carnero @ Aug 29th 2008 1:57PM]

Some other quality photos are on following link: http://www.ce4you.cz/articles/detail.asp?a=321

[ZSX @ Aug 29th 2008 5:30PM]

Well spotted!

I am a little disappointed to see how much longer it is than the S710. However, that might not matter so much if it is also much thinnner.

[StalematE @ Aug 29th 2008 1:58PM]

pretty ugly... reminds me of those old audiovox phones

[konshuss @ Aug 29th 2008 2:57PM]

i still have my PPC6600... you want to talk about thick. but it sure plays movies beautifully on its 3.5" touchscreen....

i don't think this phone is 'beautiful' aesthetically. in fact it's rather basic. but maybe that's why i love it.

BUTTONS, BUTTONS AND MORE BUTTONS! what a novel concept, eh fanboys?

[phanbouy @ Aug 29th 2008 5:06PM]

"what a novel concept, eh fanboys?"

like you say, you wouldn't want to be a hypocrite by trolling, would you?

[Frankfurter @ Aug 29th 2008 2:04PM]

Saaaay, that's a nice looking phone......

LOL

Not really.

[ivanotter @ Aug 29th 2008 2:07PM]

Why can't they do this WITH touchscreen? One ting i hate about my phone is no dedicated diaplad, and there was a smartphone out there for verizon that was both (a samsung model IIRC). Had a dedicated dialpad on front, a touchscreen, and a slide out keyboard.

Sorry for all you "fat phone" commentors, but i like a phone that actually fits in my hand instead of making me feel like i am attempting to grip a 2D object. There is too large, but since the Pro and this are as thick/thinner than my Mogul, then it is NOT

[MickLiq @ Aug 29th 2008 2:13PM]

Nothing to see here, move on.

Thick+WM6.1 standard, why would anyone buy this over an E71? Or for that matter, a BJ II?

[jtizzlefurizzle21 @ Aug 29th 2008 6:11PM]

bj's are way to expensive in todays market

[JDL @ Aug 29th 2008 2:15PM]

I'm pretty such this isn't a touchscreen phone at all. That's why its got the numpad up front. Also, there's no "Touch" in the phone's name.

[JDL @ Aug 29th 2008 2:16PM]

Grr. this should have been a reply to Jonathan Ziemer

[xchrisx @ Aug 29th 2008 2:20PM]

All of these new HTC phones would look nicer with a full screen + slideout like the xperia. No need for the dial pad as long as there's touch dialer like the iPhone. This one especially is just too long. Otherwise, not a bad looking phone.

[chefgon_ign @ Aug 29th 2008 3:35PM]

There is no touch dialer because there is no touch screen.

[Phoenix @ Aug 29th 2008 3:46PM]

1) no touch screen.
2) Ever heard of the Touch Pro?

[jefffaucher @ Aug 29th 2008 3:53PM]

I can't tell if this thing is a big phone or a tiny netbook. Eef.

[Phoenix @ Aug 29th 2008 4:10PM]

It's a smartphone...

[Jason @ Aug 29th 2008 5:47PM]

...in Lake Woebegone.

[RD. @ Aug 29th 2008 3:53PM]

I need more keys on a phone. They should have replaced the screen with more keys and made it twice as long with more keys.

[Jon Doe. @ Aug 29th 2008 9:56PM]

Can this be the T Mobile G1...please?

[David Rankine @ Aug 29th 2008 11:22PM]

I would buy this if the screen was 3.3 or bigger

[weareborg @ Sep 2nd 2008 1:58PM]

Looks exactly like a sharp model on display at the IFA sharp booth last year. Sharp's was grey and very light & "plasticky". The only difference I see here is the black casing..

[Dan Noiseux @ Sep 3rd 2008 8:31AM]

It not QWERTY but QWERTZ ??? Strange don't zou think?